Different countries have different ways of classifying them... Heck, even in the US some cities and states classify ages/grades differently. Sorry if you can't figure out what to put. I did it mainly by North American standards, but I think it applies to many other countries, more or less? People from Denmark who have 9 or so years in primary school... Sorry, lmao. Just select the age you had the most fun in?

Pre-School/Nursery School -- ages 0 to 5
Primary/Elementary School -- ages 6 - 10 (or 11)
Intermediate/Middle/Junior High School -- 11 (or 12) to 13 (or 14)
Secondary/High School -- 14 to 17
College/University/Higher Education -- 18 and up

Ages are just general averages. I know some junior highs start when one is 12 and go to 14 and high school is only three years long.

I had the most fun in... high school. Or elementary, but I'm putting high school. College should be even better though. Hopefully <3

We don't have middle school where we are, so I voted for high school. I really hope, though, college will be a lot better. :pink:

I had the most fun in preschool ^^

Primary school and junior high were the same for me because I went to a small Catholic school that was K-8, but it wasn't very fun either way. There were 29 people in my year, and it was all very clique-y so I gained and lost friends pretty quickly. High school has been fun overall, but I've been sick for about 75% of it so it's brought it down a lot.

Hopefully college will be better for me too ^_^

Primary school. Junior high sucked, I had 0 fun in high school (well, maybe a little), and college is blah.

Hum... I'd have to say the last three years of High School were pretty awesome for me. Years 10-12 that is. VCE (11 & 12) would have been so much better if there hadn't been so much pressure, but that's all good.

Uni is... interesting. I'll leave it at that. XD

What I've encountered of University this far has been absolutely amazing, so, university. Though I have had a lot of fun in both Secondary and Upper Secondary (roughly the equivalents of Junior High and High School).

Uni.

I can surround myself with other genderqueer individuals, feminist individuals, people in poly/non-monogamous relationships, all the way I choose to live my life. They get me and I get them.

University, university, university, for a lot of reasons.

1) The diversity of the student body is incredible. That's not a particular feature of university over high school (well, I suppose it is when you consider international students), but it has given me the opportunity to interact with people from a wide variety of backgrounds and with many different world views than I would have ever enjoyed back home.

2) No homework... per se. I don't have to come home every night and scour the textbook to answer 10 or 20 brainless questions. Everything is boiled down to a few large papers which allow for some creativity and self-expression.

3) Tutorial groups. This is something that most schools apparently don't do, from what other people have told me, but in addition to regular 200-student lectures we also meet in 20-student tutorials every week to discuss the material. I find it a far better arrangement than the high school class - the tutorial leaders are usually graduate students themselves so they're just a few years older than you, they intimately understand the material and the concepts behind it, and they encourage real intellectual discussion (and take you seriously when you express your opinion).

4) Academic freedom. Unlike high school, university isn't designed to be an assembly line, pouring (let's face it) propaganda in students' ears and shaping them to be cogs in a machine. Being one of those annoying people who never grew out of constantly questioning everything, I always had an inkling that the First World War didn't start just because the Kaiser had a shiny new military and wanted to use it, but I never realised how biased high school was in favour of the British Empire, liberalism (in the political science sense), capitalism, the government... basically the status quo in every way possible. University is geared toward studying source material rather than just what the professor says, looking at things from every angle, and arriving at your own conclusions. Unlike high schools, universities are under no obligation from the government to push a particular ideology to students.


What I don't like about university is the inevitable outcome of #4: student politics, or student radicalism. Every year there are at least three demonstrations that end in violent clashes between Jewish and Middle Eastern students. Every other interest group or student organization in the school more or less follows their lead and takes license to be a nuisance on campus. The major exception are the Christian and atheist organizations, who have a surprisingly friendly relationship with each other and often jointly sponsor events and debates.

I'm English I went to pre school, primary school, middle school, secondary school and now I'm in college. Got to say college is the best of the bunch, more freedom.